Atelier Forêt
An editorial website for a Paris-based architecture practice known for light and materiality.
Overview
Atelier Forêt is a boutique architecture practice in Paris known for their approach to materiality and light. They came to me with a beautiful portfolio of work and a website that actively undermined it: generic, template-feeling, and architecturally illiterate.
The brief
Build a website that feels like it was designed by architects, not for architects. The site should have the same rigour, restraint, and spatial intelligence as the buildings it documents. Nothing should be decorative. Everything should be considered.
Design decisions
Every decision was made in service of the photography. Architecture photography is where the work lives. The text, the metadata, the navigation are all supporting cast. So we designed a site where the images breathe, fill space, and command attention in a way that mirrors the experience of being in the buildings themselves.
